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The Gothic Imagination is based at the University of Stirling, Scotland and provides an interdisciplinary forum for lively discussion and critical debate concerning all manifestations of the Gothic mode. Queries to Dr Timothy Jones on timothy.jones@stir.ac.uk.

“Dark creatures are more fun”
Interview with Joseph Delaney / Review of Slither’s Tale
Slither’s Tale
Publisher: Bodley Head (27 Sep 2012)
ISBN-10: 0370332172
ISBN-13: 978-0370332178
Joseph Delaney is the author of the spectacularly successful dark fantasy series, The Wardstone Chronicles, written for children and young adults. The novels tell the story of Tom Ward, a farmer’s son apprenticed to the County ‘Spook’ on his twelfth birthday. Tom and the ‘Spook’ live and work at the edge of their community, protecting the folk of ‘the County’ from supernatural thr

Since this is the last day of the month and the last day of my guest blog, I'm going to be a bit self-indulgent (but will move on, I promise!). Also, a response to my last blog (by Frederick) got me thinking...
So first: I'm going to talk about my own taste for skulls and skeletons. Much of my research focuses on the body and the history of medicine and the gothic. As a result, I have accumulated quite a collection of things skeletal. Allow me to share:
I have a ceramic skeleton pendant and porcelain skull sculptures from Australian designers Iggy & Lou Lou (the artist behind the

I am co-curating an exhibition on Victorian Medievalism at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), from September 2014-March 2015. The AHRC generously awarded us a substantial sum of money toward researching and borrowing pieces for this exhibition. As these things go, pieces from other galleries have to be ordered quite far in advance, so I’m thinking about what fabulously gothic, medieval paintings, objects, architectural drawings, illustrated books (think William Morris’s wonderful Kelmscott Press productions) to request. NOTE: Please note any suggestions for materials for

CALL FOR PAPERS
"HORROR"34th Annual Conference of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association at the Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center on February 13-16, 2013 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
The area chair for Horror of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association invites all interested scholars to submit papers on any aspect of horror in literature, film, television, or general culture.
Particularly encouraged are presentations that fit this year’s conference theme, "Celebrating Popular/American Culture(s) in a Global Context.”
If you

In a recent blog, Marie Mulvey-Roberts rightly observed that Frankenstein has had a resurgence (again!) and she writes: 'Much has been written about the monster in psycho-biographical terms as a manifestation of maternal guilt or grief or as an attempt to resurrect her dead mother .... The building of the monster has been seen as a recreation of Mary Shelley herself.'
HATE. Sorry, had to get that out.
I know this is an oft-visited debate, but along with the resurrection of interest in Frankenstein, there has been a resurrection in psycho-biographical readings - in the press, in popu

Straddling the geographic and cultural borders between Scotland and Ireland and sprawling over the many textual genres it incorporates, haunts and appropriates, Celtic Gothic remains a fertile and productive topic for contemporary scholarship which embodies a range of time periods, often benchmarked as moving from the writing of Hogg and Scott to present day. As much a hybrid as a double, the Gothic is a nexus and a thematic nuclear that lends itself well to an interrogation of Celtic culture. Following the success of the Spectral Gothic symposium in June 2012 at the University of Sunder

Tom Duggett, Gothic Romanticism: architecture, politics and literary form (Houndsmills, cialis Basingstoke UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) Nineteenth-century Major Lives and Letters [ISBN: 978-0-230-61532-8].
Possibly one of the most terrifying visual images to emerge from the attack on the World Trade Centre is that which is now endlessly reproduced in visual media, showing the wreckage of the towers. Like one of Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings, the twin towers are like a gothic ruin, cloaked in the rising dust from the rubble. These images became visually symbolic of how ‘we foun

The walking dead have permeated popular culture to such an extent that no visit to a bookshop or cinema goes without encountering some variation of the contemporary zombie. Zombie literature is inescapable, and the sheer volume available is as daunting as a relentless crowd of flesh-hungry foes.
With this in mind, I would like to suggest three zombie themed anthologies that not only act as an introduction to the genre, but also flesh-out various interpretations of the zombie as a multifaceted monster.
If you are to read only one zombie book, let it be ZOMBIES: A Compendium of the Livi

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The Gothic Imagination is based at the University of Stirling, Scotland and provides an interdisciplinary forum for lively discussion and critical debate concerning all manifestations of the Gothic mode. Queries to glennis.byron@stir.ac.uk or dale.townshend@stir.ac.uk